This presidential season is going to be a fun one for the most part, so I want to make sure I get my rundown out there ahead of time for all of you, so that you can either quote me or pick on me about it all, but don't doubt me here. I live in New Hampshire after all and I have a lot more insight on a lot of things thanks to a two year smashing of ads, bullshit, media spin and other crap that most people aren't going to get across the country because at least half of these people will be out of the race. My thoughts so far are pretty simple, and at this stage of the game I just want to talk about how the media is spinning these people on us. That's what we are going to see for the next year anyway, as every media figure spends large quantities of time trying to tell you how to think as opposed to .. yanno .. report news.
I'll start with the easy and the obvious ones first. We have Michelle Bachmann. She's a darling of the Tea Party which in and of itself will start towing the company line of “she is evil.” For those of you who haven't allowed Tea Party spin to shape your belief system that a bunch of old ladies holding signs are the second coming of Adolf Hitler, you probably are already laughing along with me. Basically I say this is easy because as a female conservative candidate, there are two things the media throws out. She's a slut or she's an idiot. Nobody in their right mind {and that even means the most far left communist leaning deniers} would go after Bachmann for being a slut and come out of it with any credibility, so the “idiot” angle has already started. They are starting off slow by installing comments like “ditsy” or “flaky” until they can start morphing them into more damning words, until they can flat out call her an “idiot” like they do Sarah Palin now. For those of you that don't understand me, just throw out that Sarah Palin is an idiot at the beginning of a sentence and watch how I treat you. Non thinking human beings should just be ground up into dog food as far as I am concerned.
Then we have the next tier of Tea Party favorites which I will briefly go into, just because the media will for a time at least simply treat them like they don't exist or don't have enough popularity to make it through Iowa. Ron Paul being the most notable, and despite the fact that I like the guy and agree with about two thirds of what he is about, there is the die hard Ron Paul supporter out there. These are usually former liberals that are now angry in a different direction, either as they get older or are far too young and just want to hate on their dumbass liberal parents. These people are totally intolerable because you CANNOT talk to them. They memorize cue cards and do not allow for any debate. It's like talking to an Obama supporter who ignores every one of his flaws and knows the cue card of “You're a racist” to anyone who doesn't like him. Ron Paul is the only candidate in the race I root against just in hopes that his fans will be miserable at the end of it all, or like I often say, “He is the Dallas Cowboys of politics. It's not the team it's the fans that you hate.”
Then you have Rick Santorum who in a perfect world, if the Tea Party truly was organized enough and able to take over the world with their evil plots of {gasp} freedom and liberty for everyone, would win the Republican nomination hands down. The major media simply pretends he's never on the stage unless he says something they can convince you is crazy, then he will be front and center and the voice of all Republicans. Many of his “crazy” beliefs on abortion, military, governmental lay offs, welfare reform, tax reform etc etc actually tend to be mainstream if purely on a person to person basis. The biggest problem we have with people like this is that in the battle of media time the average person who actually pays attention to the news tends to believe everything they hear. You never know, but I think with Michelle Bachmann in the race Rick Santorum has some problems ahead especially with people like myself who isn't so much anti-war as I am anti-endlesswar and don't appreciate the less than firm grasp of how wars in the middle east work that comes from Rick Santorum and I get the feeling that we could never see an end to any of them. Don't get me wrong. I believe in some blinding force and a decisive victory and then a return home. I don't think the average politician has the stones in general but Rick Santorum appears to be a go along with it for God knows how long. Type of guy.
I also think you have to put Newt Gingritch in this category. I don't know why he ends up with his head caught inside his ass as often as he does, but trust me when I say before he was speaker of the house and a philanderer, he was the strongest Reagan Conservative in the house. He was famous for having “after house meeting” press conferences where he would preach conservatism with the best of them. Now with that said he is not even in MY top 5 candidates because especially if you are in politics, people who cheat on their spouses are just plain dishonest and I don't want them. If you don't like that opinion then fuck ya, write your own blog. More to the point, I think anyone who is a well known politician having an affair on their spouse is not only dishonest but has very poor judgment skills. YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH IT FOREVER and you will be forever judged by it. On that note though there are others who don't care about that or worse yet play the “they all do it card” {or as I like to say, I don't care if the world gets better Oprah is on} who will still vote for Newt.
Last in this category is Gary Johnson. Don't count him out either. He only stands for about half of what I do, but I really like the guy and trust him to always do the right thing when given the opportunity. He's a bit different of a Libertarian style candidate than Ron Paul and his supporters aren't obnoxious. The news is treating him like a joke and he didn't even get invited to the last debate, but as I said I like him, and would be perfectly happy to vote for him if he won the nomination. That's saying a lot considering that he is the only honestly pro-choice candidate in the race. Let's go back to Jeremy's rule on the pro-choice pro-life issues. I am very pro-life but I DO NOT think it is a political issue. It is a political football and they have been tossing that football around since the 70's. I like candidates that agree with my stance, but whether they do or not it will never change. Abortion is legal and will be until I am old and grey and well beyond.
Now before I get into the caveats of the candidates the news media is forcing on you, I want you to understand one thing and one thing alone before you formulate an opinion on any of them. The people who are singing the praises of these candidates, and telling you who you should like and why will NEVER vote for any of them. They already have their plans set to go into the polls, place their checkmark under the donkey's ass {meaning they probably don't even take the time to pick candidates individually and just vote strait ticket Democrat they are so in the bag} and if you don't see that for what it is worth then you don't stand a chance of understanding what they are trying to do. The top line candidates according to the media are either so full of flaws that they know they can destroy them during the general election, or they know the real Republicans will sit home rather than go vote for them. They still hold out hope that they can get enough Republicans to sit home because despite their spin to the contrary, at this point Obama gets murdered in this next election. It's laughable to see them bend the spoken word to say the opposite, but it is what they do.
In the interest of burying Caesar as opposed to singing his praises, let me start with Mitt Romney. The media desperately wants to get this guy the nomination because Barack Obama will be able to play Captain Progressive and tease him about all the things he did. It will work too and by the end of it no conservative will even bother to go out and vote. The first debate when Obama says, “I liked your healthcare plan so much I replicated it and now everyone hates it, blame you Mitt blame YOU,” and I don't care how good Mitt is at speaking he'll look like a complete dolt. Let's throw in the things that the average person doesn't bother to look up because they are too lazy. Romney threw the sitting Governor of Massachusetts under the bus, then took her job, and then did it REALLY REALLY BAD. He spent about 1 year pretending to be governor and then started the perpetual road trip running for president in every other state. He left his Lt. Governor there to get all the blame, do all the work and in the end swing from a noose when she ran for Governor. Even by the standards of someone who watches Massachusetts politics and think those nimrods are hilarious the way Romney turned a glowingly bipartisan state back to a left wing Socialist island was pretty scary.
Then we get to Tim Pawlenty, or as most people called him, Tim Who? He's a pretty decent candidate, but in the end he doesn't have the name recognition to get into the fray. I do like how he admits his mistakes. This is an issue that Romney doesn't have. Pawlenty did a “Cap n Trade” exploratory committee that he takes a lot of crap about. His explanation is priceless. I appointed a committee to see if it was a good idea. The committee decided it wasn't, I agreed with them, and we dumped the idea as a whole. That's the basic gist of what he said and I didn't want to put it in quotes because it was a paraphrase. Pawlenty also broke the public sector unions in his state and as you see Wisconsin and New Jersey explode with this issue, the fact that Pawlenty got a state like Minnesota {It doesn't make me popular to point this out but these people are stupid enough to elect Al Franken to the senate so that says something} to go right-ish and cut their spending and fix a LOT of their budgetary issues means he deserves legitimate consideration. The Pro-Life crowd out there can also take solace that Pawlenty got some serious abortion limiting legislation through as well.
Herman Cain is actually more top shelf than he gets credit for in the media. As someone who lives in NH and {to be fair and disclose} firmly in the Herman Cain camp himself, his campaign has legs. There is a very strong anti-politician lean going on in the country. The two knocks I constantly hear from the “right leaning” media {who aren't worth a pound of crap either} is that he doesn't have policy experience and he doesn't always think before he speaks. Trust me BOTH of which are very endearing to a lot of people right now. He's a very articulate man as well who's “My gret grandparents were slaves and now I am running for President of the United States .. WHAT A GREAT COUNTRY” campaign makes people fall in love with him. This isn't helping the media as they try to show him as a racist Islamaphobe these days partly because he is black but mostly because the average American feels the same way he does and understands exactly his point even when he says it wrong. If I were running for president you bet your ass that I would take a second look at any devout Muslim that I would “potentially” place in my cabinet BECAUSE they have separate sets of laws that are supposed to be ahead of any man's laws, and the average non-Muslim think they are pretty demented even if we do respect their right to have those beliefs. If you don't like it tough.
Lat but not least we have Jon Huntsman. Former governor of Utah. Most people reading this probably just learned that for the first time. He will be the most rammed down your throat candidate out there and rather than go into long unimportant explanations about why and what he is about let me sum up why the news media so desperately wants this guy to be the Republican nominee in 6 words for you. “John McCain with even less charisma” .. Now think of the last presidential election .. And the one that pitted Bill Clinton against Bob Dole .. Then the one that pitted Gerald Ford against Jimmy Carter .. This is the trend when the media picks your candidates ;8o)
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